Table of Contents

Volume 36, Number 16 · October 26, 1989

Nicholas Lemann, Whistling in the Pentagon

The Pentagonists: An Insider's View of Waste, Mismanagement, and Fraud in Defense Spending by A. Ernest Fitzgerald

New Weapons, Old Politics: America's Military Procurement Muddle by Thomas L. McNaugher

Robert M. Adams, Balancing Act

A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes

Robert I. Friedman, The Secret Agent

Territory of Lies: The Exclusive Story of Jonathan Jay Pollard: The American Who Spied On His Country for Israel and How He was Betrayed by Wolf Blitzer

C. Vann Woodward, The Narcissistic South

Encyclopedia of Southern Culture edited by Charles Reagan Wilson, edited by William Ferris

William H. Gass, Being and Dying

The Encyclopedia of the Dead by Danilo Kiš, translated by Michael Henry Heim

Philip Gossett, Up from Beethoven

Nineteenth-Century Music by Carl Dahlhaus, translated by J. Bradford Robinson

Jonathan Mirsky, Stories from the Ice Age

Spring Bamboo: A Collection of Contemporary Chinese Short Stories compiled and translated by Jeanne Tai, with a foreword by Bette Bao Lord, an introduction by Leo Ou-fan Lee

I Myself Am a Woman: Selected Writings of Ding Ling edited by Tani E. Barlow, with Gary J. Bjorge

Baotown by Wang Anyi, translated by Martha Avery

Lapse of Time by Wang Anyi, introduction by Jeffrey Kinkley

Ian Buruma, From Hirohito to Heimat

La Mémoire vaine: du crime contre l'humanité by Alain Finkielkraut

Hotel Terminus a film by Marcel Ophuls

From Hitler to Heimat: The Return of History as Film by Anton Kaes

In Hitler's Shadow: West German Historians and the Attempt to Escape From the Nazi Past by Richard J. Evans

What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?: Growing Up German by Sabine Reichel

The Other Nuremberg: The Untold Story of the Tokyo War Crimes Trials by Arnold C. Brackman

Hirohito: Behind the Myth by Edward Behr

Jasper Griffin, A Front-Line Classicist

Essays Ancient and Modern by Bernard Knox

George M. Fredrickson, Can South Africa Change?

In the Name of Apartheid: South Africa in the Postwar Period by Martin Meredith

South Africa: No Turning Back edited by Shaun Johnson, foreword by Lord Bullock

Inside Apartheid: One Woman's Struggle in South Africa by Janet Levine

Democratic Liberalism in South Africa: Its History and Prospect edited by Jeffrey Butler, edited by Richard Elphick, edited by David Welsh

After Apartheid: The Solution for South Africa by Frances Kendall, by Leon Louw, foreword by Samuel Motsuenyane

Uprooting Poverty: The South African Challenge by Francis Wilson, by Mamphela Ramphele

Can South Africa Survive? Five Minutes to Midnight edited by John D. Brewer

Lionel Gossman, Success Story

The Triumph of Liberalism: Zürich in the Golden Age, 1830–1869 by Gordon A. Craig

Garry Wills, Love in the Lower Depths

Elizabeth Hardwick, Basic Englishing

Olwyn Hughes, Anne Stevenson, Al Alvarez, Sylvia Plath: An Exchange

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Letters

Ronald Bayer, H. Daniel, Aids in Cuba
Sheldon Avery, Conor Cruise O'Brien, The Vatican and Hitler
Jacques Kornberg, Conor Cruise O'Brien, The Vatican and Hitler
Bruce Max Feldmann D.V.M., Peter Singer, They Didn't Use Animals

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Contributors

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received the 2008 Erasmus Prize. His novel The China Lover was published in September 2008.

George M. Fredrickson is Edgar E. Robinson Professor of US History Emeritus at Stanford. His most recent books are Racism: A Short History and Not Just Black and White, a collection co-edited with Nancy Foner. (August 2006)

Philip Gossett is the Robert W. Reneker Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. His reconstruction of Gustavo III, the original version of Verdi's Un ballo in maschera, had its première at the Göteborg Opera in Sweden this past September. (March 2003)

Jasper Griffin is Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature and a Fellow of Balliol College. His books include Homer on Life and Death. (June 2008)

Elizabeth Hardwick (1916-2007) was a frequent contributor to Partisan Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books, which she helped found in 1963. Her books include the novels The Simple Truth, The Ghostly Lover, and Sleepless Nights (NYRB Classics); the essay collections A View of My Own and Seduction and Betrayal (NYRB Classics).

Nicholas Lemann is the national correspondent for The Atlantic. (June 1998)

Jonathan Mirsky is a historian and journalist specializing in Chinese affairs. In 2002 he was the first I.F. Stone Teaching Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, Journalism School.
 (August 2009)

Garry Wills is Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern. His most recent book, What Jesus Meant, was published in 2006.

C. Vann Woodward is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His many books include Mary Chesnut's Civil War and The Old World's New World. (February 1998)

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